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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% at the market's close on Monday (3/14), erasing more than $300 billion of equity value, and lost another 10.6% Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. on Tuesday.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP.

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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Will Greece Survive the Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes. The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press.

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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business Review

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

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The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Characteristics: Most physical and institutional structures are already in place in these megacities, but with fast-growing populations and severe congestion, there is an opportunity to create value by improving efficiency and livability, and there is a market of customers with cash to pay for these benefits.

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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.